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HEfDHLAKTCKS  R.LSLRTKI)  r  OKI  F.S  Or  \!R«IM&, 

Richmond,  Oclober  6th,  1864. 

COMSCRllTlOIS'  C1RCILAK,  I 
No.  1.  ) 

I.  Enrolling  officers  throughout  the  Stale  are  enjoined  ami  rcqairetl  to  gire  all 
their  energies  at  once  to  the  execution  of  the  prorisions  of  Genera)  Orders  No- 
76,  from  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  Generals  Office  hereto  appended.  Each 
county  enrolling  officer  is  hereby  instructed  that  he  must  immediately  collect  all 
the  persons  liable  to  military  service  under  tl^  order,  and  that  he  must  deliver 
all  such  persons  at  Camp  Lee,  Richmond,  within  ten  days  after  the  receipt  of 
this  circular,  if  his  county  lies  hast  of  the  Blue  Ridge,  and  within  fifteen  day 
if  West  of  the  Blue  Ridge.  By  virtue  of  authority  derived  from  the  Secretary 
of  War,  each  and  every  enrolling  officer  failing  to  comply  with  the  requirements 
of  this  circular  fully  and  within  the  prescribed  time,  will  be  immediately  drop- 
ped from  the  rolls  and  assigned  to  the  ranks  of  the  army,  lor  either  active  or 
light  duty  field  service,  as  may  be  mo&t  appropriate  in  each  rase,  in  tlie judg- 
ment of  a  Medical  Examining  Board.  It  is  deemed  but  just  to  give  the.  empbalir 
warning  that  while  the  services  of  all  who  successfully  perform  the  important 
duties  herein  enjoined,  will  be  recognized  and  by  every  possible  means  rewarded, 
no  delay  will  be  tolerated  and  no  failure  will  be  excused,  but  the  declared  penally 
will  be  inexorably  and  swiftly  enforced  against  every  delinquent. 

II.  As  Soon  as  the  'men  of  any  county,  liable  to  military  service  under  the  an- 
nexed order,  shall  have  been  forwarded  or  collected,  the  enrolling  officer  of  such 
county,  together  with  all  persons  employed  by  him  as  conscript  guards,  clerks  or 
otherwise,  will  repair  to  Camp  Lee.  and  report  in  person  to  Major  T-  G.  I'eyton , 
Commandant  6Y  Camp  of  Instruction.  Enrolling  officers  will  at  the  same  tun 
render  full  reports  and  dUcriptive  lists  of  all  persons  employed  under  them  on 
enrolling  duty,  carefully  specifying  such  of  them  as  shall  have  been  efficient,  and 
such  asshall  have  been  delinquent  in  executing  the  requirements  of  this  circular. 

III.  Persons  liable  to  military  service  under  the  annexed  order,  who  roluota 
rily  and  promptly  report  at  Camp  Lee  wifhin  the  time  above  specified,  will   be 
allowed,  as  far  as  practicable  under  existing  regulations,  to  choose  the  companies 
to  which  they  will  be  assigned.     Such  as  require  to  be  brought  under  compul- 
sion, if  any,  will  be  assigned  without  regard  to  their  own  choice. 

1\  .  Enrolling  officers  are  instructed  that  the  annexed  order  revokes  all  detail 
heretofore  granted,  either  by  the  War  Department  or  the  Bureau  of  Conscrip- 
tion, to  men  between  the  ages  of  is  and  A~>  years,  whether  on  the  ground  of 
public  or  private  necessity;  that  is  to  say,  details  granted  to  farmers,  millers, 
mechanics  and  all  other  persons  whomsoever,  excepting  only  those  individuals 
who  are  "  detailed  uad.  actually  employed  in  manufacturing,  providing,  collecting 


and  forwarding  munitions  and  oilier  indispensably  supplies  (such  as  ordnance, 
ammunition,  tithes,  &c.,)  for  the  army  and  navy,  or  in  work  indispensable  to 
(pending)  military  operations." 

All  men  between  ]>■*  and  45  years  of  age,  now  applying  for  details,  are  also 
required  to  be  immediately  forwarded  to  the  Camp  of  Instruction. 

V .  It  will  be  observed  that  persons  regularly  exempted  from  military  service 
by  law,  such  :is  agriculturists  working  fifteen  able-bodied  hands,  State  officers, 
protected  by  proper  certificates  of  exemption,  &c,  arc  not  interfered  with  by 
the  annexed  order. 

VI.  All  light -duty  men  not  regularly  assigned  to  duty  by  the  orders  ,of  the 
Commandant  oi' Conscripts,  will  he  promptly  forwarded  to  the  Gamp  of  Instruc- 
tion, under  the  penalty  of  being  assigned  to  field  duty  with  the  active  forces. 

VII.  Persons  called  out  by  these-  orders  who  claim  exemption  on  account  of 
physical  disability,  will  be  examined  by  a  Medical  Board  at*  the  Camp  of  Instruc- 
tion, and  not  by  the  District  Medical   Hoards. 

VIII.  County  Commandants  and  other  officers  of  the  Local  Forces  are  ordered 
forthwith  to  furnish  the .enrolling  officers  of  their  respective  counties  with  the 
names  of  all  detailed  men  belonging  to  their  several  commands,  and  they  will 
actively  assist  the  enrolling  officers  in  collecting  such  men  and  forwarding  them 
to  the  Camp  of  Instruction  at  Richmond. 

It  is  not  the  design  of  the  annexed  order  to  discontinue  the  Local  Forces, 
they  will  be  continued  or  rc-organi/.ed  as  circumstances  may  dictate  after  the 
withdrawal  of  the  detailed  men  now  required  for  regular  service,  but  none  ex- 
cept men  exempt  from  all  military  duty  and  those  detailed  from  the  reserve  class, 
viz  :  detailed  men  between  17  and  18  and  between  45  and  50  years  of  age,  will 
be  now  retained  or  hereafter  enrolled  in  the  Local  Forces  :  All  the  detailed 
men  will  be  immediately  withdrawn  from  the  Local  Forces  even  from  such  com- 
panies and  battalions  of  the  Local  Forces  as  may  be  embodied  and  actually  ser-v- 
i  ng  in  the  held.  • 

IX.  By  command  of  the  Secretary  of  War  the  Camp  of  Instruction  at  Dublin 
is  hereby  abolished. 

By  command  of  Major  General  Kemper. 

It.    II.  CATLETT, 
.Issistctnt  .Idjutant  General. 


WAR  DEPARTMENT,  ) 

Ad.mtakt  and  Inspector  Gkkf.rai.'s  Office,/ 
October  6th,  18C4.  i        ) 
GENERAL  ORDERS,  > 
No.  76.  i 

I.  All  detail*  heretofore  granted  under  authority  of  the  War  Drpartmcnl,  to 
persons  between  the  ages  of  18  and  45  years,  are  revoked,  and  all  such  detailed 
mfii,  together  with  those  within  the  said  age*  who  hold  furloughs  or  temporary 
exemptions  by  reason  of  pending  applications  for  detail,  will  be  promptly  assem- 
bled at  the  ramps  of  instruction  and  appropriately  assigned  among  the  armies  for 
service  ;  except  that  men  detailed  and  now  actually  employed  in  manufacturing, 
providing,  collecting  and  forwarding  munitions  and  other  indispensable  supplies 
or  the  army  and  navy,  or  in  work  indispensable  to  military  operations,  will  be 
continued  in  their  present  employments  until  their  details  shall  be,  revised. 

II.  The  heads  of  departments  and  chiefs  of  bureaux  wijl  within  the  next  JO 
dn\s  forward  to  the  General*  of  reserves  lists  of  all  detailed  'men  in  their  cm- 
ployment  in  the  several  Stales,  specially  distinguishing  and  certifying  those  who 
are  experts  and  those  absolutely  indispensable  for  the  performance  of  the  above 
mentioned  government  work  and  business  ;  and  all  detailed  employees,  not  so 
certified,  within  the  prescribed  period  will,  upon  the  expiration  thereof-,  be  forth- 
with assigned  to  the  army. 

III.  All  other  persons  called  out  by  this  order,  who  claim  exemption  on  ac- 
count of  physical  disability,  will  be  examined  by  select  Medical  Boards  afte,. 
their  arrival  at  the  camps  of  instruction. 

IV.  All  men  found  for  light  duty,  who  are  unassigned,  will  at  once  report  lo 
the  camps  of  instruction  under  the  penally  of  being  forthwith  assigned  to  the 
active  forces. 

By  command  Of  Secretary  of  War. 

S.    OOOPER,' 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General- 


Co\M  WIT    ()l  KICK,  ) 

liichnumd,  October  6th,  1864.      <, 
CIRCULAR,  ) 
No.  68.      > 

J ii  obedience  to  the  foregoing  orders  from  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General's 
Office  and  from  Headquarters  Reserve  Forces  of  Virginia,  District  and  Countj 
Knrolling  Officers  are  hereby  required  to  render  full  and  prompt  compliance  lo 
the  same.  * 

County  officers  will  commence  correspondence  direct  with  this  office,  but  are 
liable  to  and  will  obey  instructions  from  the  District  Officer  in  the  execution  of 
these  orders. 

District  officers  will  continue  without  abatement  to  discharge  the  duties  re- 
quired of  them  under  former  instructions,  until  relieved  by  orders  transmitted 
through  this  Office. 

District  officers  will  report  without  delay  the  Post  Office  address  of  each  Coun- 
ty Officer  in  his  Congressional  District,  also  the  name  and  Post  Office  address  of 
the  Senior  Surgeon  of  the  Medical  Examining  Board. 

By  order  of  Lieut.  Col.  J.  C.  Shields,  Commandant. 

.TAS.  II.  B1NFORD, 
JAtultnanl  and  .Adjutant. 


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